This course provides an understanding oforal language acquisition and the role it plays in learning to read and write, as well as research-based strategies and activities for developing oral language, phonemic awareness, and early literacy skills. Students will demonstrate proficiency at analyzing oral language, reading and writing samples of young normally-developing and at-risk children, as well as children learning English as a second language.They will also demonstrate proficiency at developing curriculum-based lesson plans aimed at developing oral language, phonemic awareness and early literacy skills.
In this website you will find the course outline, most of the course readings in pdf files, some media files that we will watch in class and that you are encouraged to watch on your own. This website will also be a discussion board and will provide a way to submit shared work and comments among the class group. I look forward to meeting you on Friday.
Welcome to Lit 601 Wiki Winter 2010
Course description
This course provides an understanding oforal language acquisition and the role it plays in learning to read and write, as well as research-based strategies and activities for developing oral language, phonemic awareness, and early literacy skills. Students will demonstrate proficiency at analyzing oral language, reading and writing samples of young normally-developing and at-risk children, as well as children learning English as a second language. They will also demonstrate proficiency at developing curriculum-based lesson plans aimed at developing oral language, phonemic awareness and early literacy skills.
In this website you will find the course outline, most of the course readings in pdf files, some media files that we will watch in class and that you are encouraged to watch on your own. This website will also be a discussion board and will provide a way to submit shared work and comments among the class group. I look forward to meeting you on Friday.